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...back to me. The way I figure it, I work here. They're my worthless-till-I'm-60 shares and if I want to load up on them when the getting's good that's my decision. (And yes, it does make financial professionals wince when I admit this.) But it's still my call, and if I want a retirement plan that isn't tied to my company's fortunes I can put the money in an IRA or I can go work for somebody else. If AOL then wants to convince me to stay by changing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose 401(k) Is It Anyway? | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...Frame-a-Stock: Enron ? Purchase the nearly worthless stock framed for only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekly Web Guide: Jan. 21, 2002 Issue | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

...that the Fletcher University Professor’s work may have more soul than substance. And sometimes even his fellow liberals sell out to The Man, as The New Republic did in 1995 when its Leon Wieseltier famously called West’s work “almost completely worthless...noisy, tedious, slippery, sectarian, humorless, pedantic, and self-endeared...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, ROSS G. DOUTHAT | Title: Let Us Now Praise Cornel West | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

...problems?money, jobs, each other," says Setsuko Tsuboi, an attorney who takes child-welfare cases pro bono. "They take their frustrations out on their children through neglect or being overly strict, even abusive. Children then feel they have no place in the home, that indeed their lives are worthless." According to a study by the Health and Welfare Ministry, 72% of girls and 46% of boys who suffered some form of abuse in the home responded by running away. There's not much of a safety net for those kids. Child abuse was only made illegal in Japan last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teenage Wasteland | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...singing that can only be described as guttural muttering. The technique is featured prominently on the album’s first single, the ridiculously titled “I’m a Slave 4 U.” Even her most ardent fans would concede that she is worthless as a pure vocalist, but bad vocalists can still be effective singers: witness Bob Dylan. Instead of electronically manipulating her voice à la Cher in 1998’s “Believe,” Spears’ producers have her perform an aesthetically repulsive half-talking, half...

Author: By Stanley P. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Britney: Big Girls Don't Grrrrrrowl | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

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